Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally figured out what's gone wrong with the presidential campaign. It's not that the two nominees are usually aiming straight for each other's jugular. We've come to expect that every four years. No, what's wrong with this campaign is that the fine art of lying has died a quiet death...
Take Gary Hart, for example. Obviously, he lacked training in the finer art of lying. He forgot the cardinal rule: never get caught. And if you do get caught, you might as well try the truth. Look at the campaign of 1884, which instead of focusing on the issues, degenerated into one of personal abuse and vilification (sound familiar?). The Republican party led by James G. Blaine coined the catchy phrase, "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" to needle Grover Cleveland about his illegitimate child. But Cleveland admitted his responsibility and look where that got him. "Gone to the White...
...excellent article [9/14/88, page 13] on the new HOLLIS system with great interest. HOLLIS is terriffic; I will be using it all the time. I must take issue, however, with some of the boosterism reflected bvy remarks by library officials suggesting that the system is "absolutely state-of-the-art." Whatever the state of the art is, it is not HOLLIS. HOLLIS cannot do keyword searching; HOLLIS cannot search both the "Older Widener" and Union Catalogs at the same time; there is no provision in HOLLIS for saving selections for later printout (although one may line up for a terminal...
...short, what really bugs me is not necessarily the capabilities of the system, but the attitude of the developers that it is "state of the art." They tell us that they can put 150,000 entries on line per year. With 8,000,000 more volumes to go, that's about 50 years. Let's be real...
...movie clip. Browse through the media memorabilia of a zillion middle-class childhoods: the Cisco Kid coloring book, the Partridge Family lunch box, a Donald Duck board game, the Welcome Back, Kotter paper-doll set. And when you need a rest, stop by AMMI's two state-of-the-art theaters and catch a full-length movie. Later this fall, AMMI will mount a Jerry Lewis retrospective. Henri Langlois must be pleased...